“Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness.”
Henri Nouwen

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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Bonus!

This is silly, but I'm excited.

The same pregnancy hormones that make me want to fall asleep in the mid-conversation or be careful about what I eat because I never know if it will stay down have some benefits. My fingernails are growing like mad! That's right. My otherwise thin, weak nails are strong and of decent length. Someone said my hair is probably growing faster too. Can't tell yet. I'm just enjoying having nails long enough to click on a table for the first time in my life!

i've never had nails long enough to click on anything. i think i tried to grow them out once in junior high and my piano teacher hit me with a conductor's baton during a chopin etude. i think that was the trigger for my neurotic nail-biting habit that i foster to this day.

i wonder if when i'm pregnant and my nails are long, my baby will kick me when i click them on the piano. i'll keep you posted...